Everything is still standing here. I had a couple of newly planted trees leaning when I got home last night, but no limbs down.
I did lose three chicks to drowning yesterday. We have had an insane amount of rain in the last 24 hours. The worst of it is hitting Nashville, but Murfreesboro is getting our fair share. Apparently the broody pen took on water (it is under the coop, so it is covered, and it is at the top of a slight hill.) Water has never been a problem before. It is ALWAYS dry. All I can figure is that there was so much driving rain in such a short period of time that it flooded. When I got home last night, the mama hens were on top of a milk crate and the little chicks were dead.
I have two more babies under a mama in the banty coop. So far they seem okay. She is keeping them up in the coop, so perhaps they will stay warm and dry. We are supposed to get rain all day.
Y'all pray for Nashville. It is really, really bad all over town. They hauled 150 stranded cars off of Interstate 24 last night. It is only getting worse today. Lots of my friends have a foot of water in their first floors. It is bad all over town. Over 50 roads have been closed, the river is well above flood stage and is getting ready to crest 1st Avenue, all of the creeks are higher than they have every been. There have been 150 water rescues in the last 24 hours. It is scary bad. Heavy rain is forecasted through the afternoon.
I did lose three chicks to drowning yesterday. We have had an insane amount of rain in the last 24 hours. The worst of it is hitting Nashville, but Murfreesboro is getting our fair share. Apparently the broody pen took on water (it is under the coop, so it is covered, and it is at the top of a slight hill.) Water has never been a problem before. It is ALWAYS dry. All I can figure is that there was so much driving rain in such a short period of time that it flooded. When I got home last night, the mama hens were on top of a milk crate and the little chicks were dead.
I have two more babies under a mama in the banty coop. So far they seem okay. She is keeping them up in the coop, so perhaps they will stay warm and dry. We are supposed to get rain all day.
Y'all pray for Nashville. It is really, really bad all over town. They hauled 150 stranded cars off of Interstate 24 last night. It is only getting worse today. Lots of my friends have a foot of water in their first floors. It is bad all over town. Over 50 roads have been closed, the river is well above flood stage and is getting ready to crest 1st Avenue, all of the creeks are higher than they have every been. There have been 150 water rescues in the last 24 hours. It is scary bad. Heavy rain is forecasted through the afternoon.
